Note 49 — Chapter III · NEWGATE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (DOWN TO THE GREAT FIRE).

The priests were subject to espionage even beyond the limits of the realm. A deposition is given in the State Papers made by one Arthur Saul, a prisoner in Newgate, to the effect that he had been employed by Secretary Winwood and the Archbishop of Canterbury to report what English were at Douay College, particulars of priests who have returned to England, of their meeting-places and conveyance of letters. “One of them,” it is added, “helped four recusants to escape from Newgate.”